We don't view motor violence like all the other violence, Exhibit 746 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

Do not blow snot in a group run it is not cool. It goes everywhere including the person's face who is behind you. Same for riding a bike, unless you're miles from anywhere on your own it is just not appropriate. Do people not remember COVID already?

I've realised what I don't like about music streaming isn't just paying for music that you don't get to keep, you also constantly land on the same stuff. You'd think it'd fan out your musical interest but I think you end up listening in a more shallow way. You don't really develop an interest.

That's what it is now. I'm an Australian we can make up words and no-one will even question them, I'm going to start dropping "absolute horses" and I'm 90% people will know what I mean. No way to be sure without giving it a squigerydoo.

A limerick. Based on a true story.

I learned about equal loudness contours yesterday. Similar curves exist for how people experience music in headphones. I wonder a lot about how people enjoy music more or less just based on where the volume dial is that day. And how much it's about your ears and brain.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

Wild that we are now calling software we run on our own computers "self-hosted". When exactly did the default become on someone else's computer?

So I've determined that surgeons output surgery, which is basically just cutting holes in people. I've invented a new AI turbo surgeon which can cut holes in people faster than ever before, I think it can replace surgeons now. Anyone who complains is a Luddite scared of their job.

babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 is a great game in 2026. Just go download OpenRCT2, build some rides, sell tickets, clean spew. This is a game originally made by one person in x86 assembler. Works on any computer you have.

Everytime I hear a One Nation voter saying “we need change”, I think of this cartoon.

Without platforms like sora how will we waste resources making garbage content that no-one wants to see and no-one would ever pay for? Do you know how long it will take me to make my own utter trash without AI to help?

I'm rarely using my windows PC now and the most common thing it does is windows update. Like I paid for something that I get to use now and then for a little bit between installing updates.

Accelerating your car towards someone trying to cross the street should be treated the same as swinging a bat at people to clear them out of your way. It is a threat of violence and injury backed by potentially lethal force and it's just a normalised behaviour.

It's kind of weird how widespread "choose between three things" became a video game staple. And the trick of "make sure you keep up with a geometrically increasing difficulty". Like we are tricking you into playing an excel spreadsheet.

Apparently Morrison just did a little whoops and it's all fine. It's all ok if he might not have thought it was crime.

This is in fact a perfect cartoon

Every version of individual meritocracy elitism will, at the end of the day, not care about you. You don't really get saved from it all by thinking you made it to the special class that gets to be intellectual or whatever. All we can do is try to find ways to care about each other.

I got a weird sticker in my mailbox and was delighted to find it was for a local prog metal band and not some garbage app or fast food outlet.

Moltbook is utter stupidity. Moltbot is too. I don't care if it's running in a container if it can do actions then it can be compromised and do bad shit. Having spent a career getting the whip cracked on efficiency and security then seeing this shit is galling. Bad things will happen.

I snapped at a coworker today. Old me would have justified it. New me went back 10 minutes later and said, "I was wrong, and I'm sorry." Apologizing doesn't undermine your authority. It shows you value respect over your ego. #Growth #Accountability

It’s really weird being the same age as old people.

Feels like big tech is going hard on taylorism for their knowledge workers. I'm sure that'll go just as well as maximising SLOC went for IBM. I personally can think at over 20 thinks per minute. Some of them are about batman though.

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

Morning.

Here we go: www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

Such an important piece. Save it. Sums up everything many of us are feeling. I’ve never been as disappointed in Australian media outlets as I am now. Especially the ABC.

I searched google for 650b X 42, which is a tyre size. It helpfully tells me that's 27.3 kilobytes. I don't think my bike shop will sell me a tyre in that capacity. Go back to search Google you suck at everything now. No I don't want to turn on Gemini, I would pay you money to take it away.

this is what I hear in my head when I argue with software engineer guys who decide to give back by teaching programming and fail like 90% of their students btw www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Well once again it's good that the internet is decentralised and doesn't have come huge, flare, cloud shaped single point of failure built into everything you use. Hmmmm.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I just had an international delivery turn up, 8 days after it claimed it was delivered, by a different carrier than it said was delivering it, to a different address. It's lucky that I live there and it's near to where I asked for it to be delivered, and I looked and saw it. Some delivery miracle.

I thought I was the only one getting so pissed off with Windows that I don't want to use it any more. But apparently not, lots of people are dipping their toe into running Linux. Used to be something to worry about only when you bought a PC but now MS wants you to pay for software monthly.

I just love how AI is constantly doing things that would get real employees fired, and people keep using it.

Microsoft genuinely believes they can make you pay for additional ms office licenses for the robots that they also will sell you to use That is why they are pushing copilot so hard, they see a future where you pay them for their software to use their other software. I don't reckon it'll happen.

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Truly a time of unprecedented abundance, so long as one does not need a...<checks notes>....place to live in.

“not getting into pointless arguments on the internet is an act of revolution”

I was wondering if someone would have already discussed the concepts in No Silver Bullet vs AI development, of course they have. For fans, the distinction between essential and accidental complexity is key, and software living mostly in maintenance not build. ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silv...

As a software architect, psychology is one of my super powers for this reason. We live in a world where the people building some of the most influential tools of thought are the very same people who refuse to acknowledge the difficulty of the problem or hold the human mind in sufficient reverence

There are two kinds of software - the kind everyone hates, and the kind no-one uses.

Finished rustlings. Rust is such an opinionated language. It's like a type checker and the most opinionated developer you know implemented as a compiler.

LocalSend is so good. Your devices should always be able to talk like that if it's on your network! And it's so quick when you don't have to shuffle stuff onto an internet service! Anyway RMS was right all along.

Now realising I have gigabytes of photos in Google photos and I don't like it. 🥲

my algorithm don't my algorithm don't my algorithm don't want none unless you got O(log n)

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.